Previously, there was a limited view of past action on the client dashboard, e.g. you could only the previous booking made and the last 5 Repair Orders. Needless to say this was not giving a complete overview of client-specific data that is readily available in your auto repair software.

Our revamped dashboard will now show you complete bookings history, a complete RO history, and as always, complete invoice/transaction history, however all this data is now wrapped in neat little scrolling sections, as we were aware some clients had issues with the ‘infinite scroll’ on clients that had lots of transactions processed over time.

Other minor UI/UX tweaks have been made to how payments and certain actions are handed, using appropriate redirects depending on from what page the user takes an action, this new upgraded sub-system also prevents repeat operations, such as repeat payments, or repeat invoices due to browser reloads.

Fixed the issue of restoring a browser crash and navigating back to previous action on relaunch, these and other tunings significantly boost system efficiency and reliability, providing safeguards against common errors.

We will be adding estimates to the client dashboard screen too soon, so as always stay tuned!

We are happy to introduce a revamped payment recording on invoices, in an effort to both make this process more user friendly, and less prone to payment errors.

The most noticeable change is upon creating a payment, instead of the Transaction Complete notice, you will now be brought to that client account, with a message indicated the payment has been recorded.

Another option that has been added on user request, is to record payments made by bank transfer, this option is now available as a payment type.

By far the biggest source of customer support requests, are transactions gone wrong. In an endeavour to simplify this, we have added the facility to reverse payments, which will be removed from transactions, and the amount credited back to the invoice. In a case where it really gets messed up, you can also delete the invoice, which will clear all associated transactions. Please exercise caution with these new options, they cannot be undone once deleted.

Audit TrailThis revised system is due to unprecedented levels of customer enquiries with payments that were recorded in error, however while the ability to do so is now available, we will be refining the system so that reversed transactions are still present in the system, but balanced by a counter transaction that will be invisible on the UI.

Further updates will include proper refund handling and more accurate reversal tracking with an optional note on reason for reversal.

Also, we have improved the invoice selector to properly update the invoice amount and payment amount when selecting the invoice you wish to pay.

For our current users, most of these are welcome changes and implemented upon suggestion, so as always we hope this speeds up your day makes life easier for you.

Our autocomplete feature saves a lot of time but the list has grown and has many duplicate entries as our user base has grown. We recently added improved local inventory support, and are now taking this a step further. You can still choose to use the global list to build your local inventory, as you select parts they will be copied to your local inventory.

Other updates include being able to completely switch off global autocomplete and manage your stock independently. In this case any new parts added on an invoice, or on the Inventory screen, will be added for use in your local inventory and autocomplete.

If you are using the global autocomplete and stock management, you need to ensure you are selecting the corresponding part that has previously been added to your local inventory, admittedly this can get confusing, so it may be easier to decide on using global and switching it off after Inventory is built up with your most used parts. The global list will still be useful to new users.

July has been a busy month here as we roll out some nifty new features and improvements. Our new Sales Reporting suite is now a lot more comprehensive, and includes a long requested feature of being able to view sales data over a date range, but we decided to take it a step further and give you a little more.

Our new Sales Reporting also shows your tax liabilities, and can be calculated for any range of time you need. Our auto repair software now also the addition of the new parts sales and profit reporting, currently in beta, the parts sales are calculated on pre-markup and pre-tax figures and profits are calculated with addition of labor costs to profit on markup of parts.

Our Inventory system has seen some refinements and usability improvements, you can see the total cost tied up in stock, including by vendor or search, so you can easily see everything in stock any way you like it.

Vendor management now has the much needed and requested ability to edit, sorry about the delay on this one folks!

We are making our way through our many planned upgrades this summer, and getting through some of the more popular user requests for upgrades to our auto repair software. We are happy to announce the launch of reporting on sales tax for the current and previous month on the Sales Reports.

The tax liability area shows two totals for the current and previous month, on the left is the total for all invoices created in the period and on the right there is the total for payments received in that period.

Many requests from customers have been to store historical mileage data on invoices. This was previously managed by the vehicle log, and did not maintain a historical mileage record on individual invoices. This has now been changed so that all mileage information is now stored per invoice individually at the time of invoice creation.

We will be adding this to quotes and repair orders soon also.

Another aspect of our auto repair software we are looking at giving an overhaul is our inventory system, which is getting a review also, and we will be introducing a more feature rich tracking of cost of sales and profits on parts, other features we are considering here are part purchase dates. As always please get in touch with any suggestions you may have to improve the experience!

Once again we are happy to respond to user demand and trouble spots, managing multiple clients had been cumbersome for many new and existing users. The system of linking clients was a little awkward in retrospect, but thankfully laid the ground work for us to step with this upgrade, preserving all your existing linked client data.

Newly added clients with the replaced Add client feature, will as always be displayed and searchable through your master client list. Please notice we are no longer listing by licence plate, as many users do not enter this info, in place of this we have added a more sensible Car Make , Model , Year selection as an overview of the vehicles belonging to a client.

This is probably easier demonstrated than explained, so we have prepared a short youtube video to show how easy it is to add multiple vehicles with our new UI tweaks.